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Public Health Promotion Officer at Action Against Hunger International

Location: Bade, Yobe

Job Summary
  • The Public Health Promotion Officer will be based in Bade, Yobe State and work under the supervision of the WASH Program Manager and will supervise Public health promotion and non-food items distribution activities such as planning beneficiary selection and registration, distribution of NFI kits, community mobilization etc following Action Against Hunger’s local strategy and international guidelines.
  • The PHP Officer will support the WASH Deputy Project Manager throughout the planning, design and implementation phases of WASH technical activities.
Requirements
The tasks and responsibilities includes but are not limited to:
  • Revise and adapt hygiene promotion training materials to local context and in line with target groups to be trained.
  • Plan beneficiaries' selection and registration and lead the distribution of NFI kits with the Field Assistant team.
  • Ensure that work meets with SPHERE minimum standards.
  • Assist the WASH Deputy Program Manager with and where required participate in community mobilization.
  • Prepare training tools on relevant technical topics and conduct trainings for both internal staff and external stakeholders.
  • Represent Action Against Hunger at WASH meetings and technical working groups as required by line manager.
QualificationsThe successful candidate will:
  • Have a Bachelor's Degree in Public Health, Sociology, Rural Development or other related fields.
  • Have previous experience in supervising hygiene promotion activities.
  • Be professional, flexible, motivated, culturally sensitive and have good organizational capacity,
  • Have a minimum of two years relevant work experience within the humanitarian sector.
  • Be proficient in Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word).
  • Be willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
  • Be fluent in Hausa and English.
  • Be committed to Action Against Hunger mission, values and policy.
  • Have good knowledge of the intervention area/s and local economy.
  • Have previous donor programming experience with DFID preferably.

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